OFF: Re: Fwd: Michael Moore's Awful Truth

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On mån 26 apr 1999 07.50 +0000 "<Nick English>" <nick at THECAMPUS.COM> wrote:
>> > I don't want to offend anyone, but quite honestly, what is the
>> > big deal? It seems like people only complain about off-topic e-mails
>> > when they read one they don't like.
>>
>>      Yes, and?  I should complain about off-topic email that I
>> _do_ like?  That benefits me how? :)
>
> It benefits you by making you less hypocritical.

     But I don't mind being hypocritical :)  It would be
hypocritical to claim otherwise

> If you feel so strongly about the practice of
> sending off-topic e-mail to this list, why don't you complain every
> time somebody sends one?

     Because I don't feel like complaining everytime someone
sends one?  But seriously, what's the point point of complaining
about things I don't mind?  There's a lot of OT traffic here,
none of it is very vital to me.  I wouldn't mind if it all
disappeared.  Even the stuff that's my fault.  I shouldn't send
it.  I should send _this_. _None_ of us should be particiapting
in this thread! But it's simply impractical to complain about
everything--I'm a realist--so I simply complain when something is
sufficiently annoying to me.

     It would pretty much amaze me if people didn't complain
about things which annoyed them.  Ideally, I reckon, an
intanglible "will of the list" determines what's "too OT".
If no one else agrees with my complaint, it will have no
effect, and that seems perfectly fair to me.

Unable to get worked up over this,
Carl

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/